The political history of Japan features a seemingly relentless denigration of rulers to figureheads. Offer an explanation for this trend. What can we conclude about political power from this phenomenon?
>>3048659
Power resides where men believe I resides and the common people are gullible?
>>3048659
This sounds an awful lot like a high School level homework question
>>3048659
People with lots of swords are scary and can threaten you to let them run things.
I conclude that they feared the Black Warrior
Don't let big famies run things for you.
>>3048659
Japanese history typically swings back and forth between mercantilist bureaucratic aristocracy and absolute military dictatorship. Any other way would erase the Japanese state itself, and eventually its own national identity.
>>3048710
>mercantilist bureaucratic aristocracy
Japan started as a Feudal Monarchy albeit possessing a centralized bureacuracy.
>>3048670
College history class. I'm writing 400 words on it, just trying to gather opinions, I'm having trouble understanding the question.